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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Cookies for the Newly Engaged Couple

From the day Rich proposed, I knew that I wanted to make "wedding cookies." They were the perfect treat to serve at a "Toast" that our parents threw for us over the weekend. I was inspired by many of the ideas that I read in my favourite cookie book called Cookie Craft, by Peterson and Fryer. The only challenging part....finding the cutters.

Eventually, after searching in many stores, I found a "Wedding Cookie Cutter Set" at Michaels. I also purchased a "bridesmaid dress" cutter, (definitely my favourite one, left in the photo below) from the Retail Store at The Bonnie Gordon School of Cake Design . I am still on the hunt for a tuxedo or a suit cookie cutter...if you have any suggestions of where I can find one, please let me know!

I like to add lemon rind to my sugar cookie recipe to give them a little zing!

Have fun cutting away!

Be sure to evenly space out each cookie on a cookie sheet lined with parchment paper.

Bake for 12 minutes and let cool on a cooling rack.

Pipe royal icing to outline each cookie. This icing is a thicker consistency which creates a border so that the thinner, royal icing for flooding will not drip off of the cookie.

Flood and let set overnight.

Decorate if you like.

Da, da, da ,da...

Here comes the bride!

For the bridesmaid dress cookies, I added pink food colouring to the icing. I intentionally made the color of the icing for piping a little darker than the color of the icing for flooding.

These cookies turned out so well!

First....Pipe.

Then...flood.

The next day, I decorated them with sugar and more icing!
Aren't they adorable?

Just lovely!

In fact...I was so thrilled with the way that the bridesmaid dress cookies turned out, that I decided to personalize them with the names of my friends whom I wanted to ask to be my bridesmaids. I only personalized the names of those whom I knew would be attending the toast. I asked each of my friends individually, to march for me by presenting them with a cookie.

My sister and brother caught some of their responses...

JUST PRICELESS!

And that about sums up the first celebration of this fabulous time in my life.

Super cute! I attempted to make cookies for Halloween like this and when I took them out of the oven, well, instead of looking like pumpkins, they looked like big blobs! How do you keep your cookies in the right shape? Is it the cookie recipe?

Mel,I love your blog. Found it via Bakerella and the Proposal post. From your mention of Bonnie Gordon, am I right in assuming you are from Toronto area?

Well check out Golda's Kitchen for great cookie cutters, as well as all other baking/cooking supplies, if you haven't already. They are a Canadian company, who ship to Canada, in Canadian Dollars. They also have a store front in Mississauga! I love it there! Good luck in your tuxedo search!

Congrats!! I found you from Bakerella....how exciting and what an AMAZINGLY creative fiance you have! Lucky girl you are! I just wanted to drop by and invite you to my blog which has lots of ideas for creative romance (not that you and hubby need any creativity advice..) but it's fun anyway! Congrats again! loveactually-blog.blogspot.com

Hi, Melissa! Congrats on your engagement! Thanks so much for so beautifully being inspired by Cookie Craft!!! Your cookies look amazing! Re: groom's cutters--I've seen them at Broadway Panhandler on 8th street here in Manhattan, but we sourced many of our cookie cutters online, so I'm wagering you'll find it by searching--check the back of the book for some sites. Also, fyi, I heard from a good friend that Jimmy Fallon's sister made cookies from Cookie Craft for the wedding party his parents threw for him... so you're in excellent company!!!

WOW!!! I think I found another baking post I wanna tag as a favorite! I just saw Rich's proposal to you on Bakerella and I, too, had tears in my eyes! So sweet!

I'm glad I saw it because you sure are a talented baker! I've been wanting to do these cookies for quite some time myself and now I know a little how it works! Hope you don't mind that I tag your blog as a favorite, because it truly is!

Hi there Melissa. I just came across your proposal on bakerella. I think its so sweet and i nearly cried too! I just wanted to congratulate both of you and I wish you every happiness in the world! I am sure to post your proposal on my blog. I'm from Malaysia by the way, and as we say it in Malay, Selamat Pengantin Baru! (which means something like Happy newly weds, if directly translated.) =)